20 months old!

I can't believe my baby girl is growing up so fast! She'll be 2 before I know it and one of these days, we'll all have to give up calling her 'baby Mia'. I just needed to document somewhere all of the amazing things she's doing now, some not so amazing things. She is such a little fire ball. She very much knows what she wants and works hard to be sure she gets it. At 20 months she some new things she's doing, or just some of the things we love most about her are:

-She is still SO good to say 'Tank you' anytime she is given anything or to remind you to say thank you when she give you something. She also recently starting saying 'your welcome' right after not only you say thank you but usually when she does as well.

-She is starting to put sentances together! Slowly but surely she's getting it. For now, it's usually just to get something. She very careful says things like 'more grapes please'. she says it slowly and tries so hard to be sure to pronounce each word correctly

-She climbs on EVERYTHING! when she's hungry, she doesn't tell us, she climbs on a chair and then on the table, then to her hire chair. Today I caught her climbing up on to our barstools herself. With that, she can reach ANYTHING! it's only a matter of time...

-She can be very helpful when she wants to be. She LOVES to help me put clothes in the drier and hand them to me so I can hang them up. She also loves to throw away garbage and HATES when drawers, doors or the fridge are left open.

- She is such a loving girl. She loves to give lots of hugs and is great at the occasional kiss as long as you don't mind a little slobber. She's learned to say 'love you' and it is always accompanied by her blowing you a kiss.

- She said her own prayer all by herself the other night randomly in the middle of dinner. She folded her arms and shut her eyes as tight as she can and started whispering to herself.

- Ane my most FAVORITE thing ever she just started in the past few weeks, anytime someone sneezes or coughs, she says 'bless you'. It is just the sweetest little thing ever.

She is such a sweetheart! She has been so wonderful since I found out I'm pregnant, which has been great since I haven't been feeling well. She has learned that she can on occasion get away with more, but she's still pretty good. Occasionally the terrible 2's come out, but I know it could be a LOT worse. She is a sweet baby, very thoughtful and loving and just so so sweet.

In other news.... My very best best is coming to town today! YAY! Katie and her husband are on our way to Utah as we speak and will be here til next weekend and I'm SO excited to see them and hang out and have some girl talk time! YAY! Then in Sept, it's off to Seattle to see my brother and his amazing family!